Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Mental health Community
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 367-PLAN-7692-H
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Colne House
- Town
- Watford
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum, pro rata + 5% of basic salary (max £2,011)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Band 7
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
Band 7 Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
Part time – 0.7 WTE/ 7 sessions per week/26.25 hours per week.
Come and work in our friendly team based in Adult Community Mental Health Services based at Watford! We are an outstanding Trust!
To ensure the systematic provision of a specialist clinical / counselling psychology service across the MHLT service for the provision of psychological interventions for service users with complex MUS and severe and enduring mental health problems presenting to Watford General Hospital and Lister General Hospital.
To provide expertise, advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to other members of the teams
To work closely with the MHLT and the range of multi-disciplinary colleagues within the service setting
To work effectively as a member of multi-disciplinary teams
Main duties of the job
To ensure the systematic provision of a specialist clinical/counselling psychology service to clients with complex MUS and severe and enduring mental health problems within the MHLT services.
To provide expertise in a specialist clinical or research area and to offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to other members of the teams in relation to the area of expertise.
To work closely with the MHLT, and the range of multi-disciplinary colleagues within the service setting
To work effectively as a member of multi-disciplinary teams
Working for our organisation
We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the teams, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, Direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s complex mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions including CBT and Systemic approaches for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
For a more indepth person and Job Description please read the attached.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualification
- Professional qualification doctoral level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in mental health lisaison services
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups
- Knowledge of and some experience of cognitive and neuropsychological assessment
- Knowledge of dementia and psychological issues associated with ageing
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one evidence based psycholgocial therapty
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of physical illness and impacts of psycholgocial health
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Vanessa Cowle
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01923 837000
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